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Bio

Pete E Cento was born in Havana, Cuba. He's an alumnus of Archbishop Curley Notre Dame College Prep, Miami-Dade College, Florida International University, and U.S. Fire Administration, Emergency Management Institute, (EMI), Emmitsburg, Md. Peter Cento is an experienced film and digital photographer, and multilingual MarComm, Social Media and Public Relations strategist with more than 30 years of experience helping clients, academia, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Cento is the principal & founder of Wild Cats Photography (formerly Atlantis Photography & Design), The Cento Group, & Wild Cats Enterprises, Inc. Cento first made a name for himself in broadcast journalism in the late 80s as a writer, news assignment desk editor/planner/manager, news producer, special project producer and managing news editor at CBS Miami 4, ABC 7 Fort Myers, NBC/Telemundo Miami and Univision Miami WLTV 23. Cento is also a disaster survivor in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, a category 5 hurricane impacted south Miami-Dade County in the early morning hours of August 24, 1992. While working at WFOR CBS 4, he was a part of the station’s community rebuilding through Neighbors 4 Neighbors which recently celebrated its 20th Anniversary. Cento was also part of the award-winning Univision Arizona news team that was honored with a newsroom Emmy in 2003 for developing a comprehensive bilingual water safety and drowning prevention campaign aimed at educating the Hispanic/Latino community in Arizona. Cento has successfully managed crisis situations for BURGER KING® Corporation, University of Miami, BellSouth, AT&T Wireless, USACE Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan and the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority during the annual Atlantic hurricane season. From 2005 to 2013, Cento was deployed as Multilingual PIO and External Affairs Field Specialist with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) covering more than 45 natural disasters from California to Massachusetts and has managed crisis communications for numerous clients. As the face of Wild Casts Enterprises, Inc., clients are assured that Peter Cento will be heading their team and getting them the quality results they expect. Cento’s well-earned reputation, extensive multi-industry background, ability to “pitch” the media and uncanny ability to connect people, presents a great benefit to all of his clients.